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but mostly barren quartz for nearly 200 feet or until the shoots developed
by the main shaft were reached. There are shoots in both the Foot-wall
and Hanging-wall veins near the shaft and they have been the chief sources
of ore shipped to date.

The Foot-wall ore-shoot is known from the surface down to the 400-foot
level and in a winze 86 feet deep from that level; it occurs at and near the
intersection of the Foot-wall and Hang-wall veins. Shipping ore occurred in
the shoot from the 150-foot level to the surface, where it varied from 6
inches to 8 feet in width, averaging 4 feet to the surface. The shoot at
the 150-foot level is 200 feet long, at the 250-foot level about 150 feet long,
with the same average width bunches of high grade in milling ore; at the
400-foot level it is about 100 feet long, varying from 18 inches to 3 feet in
width, and all of milling ore. In the drift at the bottom of the winze, 86
feet below the 400-foot level, there are 6 inches of good grade ore for the
total distance of 400 feet drifted. The manager reports as follows:
“Samples taken down the winze at intervals assayed in silver from 12
ounces per ton up to 90 ounces per ton for widths from 2 to 6 feet, with
minor percentages of lead and zinc, indicating the fact, which was quite
apparent as we went down, that the ore contained more grey copper and
less zinc and lead than in the levels above. An average sample of the fines
at 40 feet in depth assayed as follows: gold, 0-12 ounce per ton; silver,
76-12 ounces per ton; lead, 6-6 per cent; zinc, 10-3 per cent.”

The Hang-wall ore-shoot extends from the intersection of the Hang-
wall and Foot-wall veins towards the north on the Hang-wall vein. At
the surface this shoot was solid ore, mostly galena and grey copper, 12
inches in width and 40 feet in length; shipments from cuts at the surface
averaged: silver, 175 ounces per ton; lead, 21-66 per cent; zinc, 14 per
cent. On the 150-foot level the shoot is known to be 95 feet in length, but
it has not been drifted on yet. On the 250-foot level the shoot is very
prominent and shows 80 feet of continuous ore varying from 23 to 4 feet in
width; there is a considerable amount of shipping ore mixed with the main
body of milling material. On the 400-foot level this shoot has been opened
up in a drift over 100 feet in length and the ore is 6 inches in width, occur-
ring along a well-defined hanging-wall. A sample taken over the whole
length and a width of 6 inches gave the following values: gold, 0-234
ounce per ton; silver, 384-64 ounces per ton; lead, 2 per cent; zinc, 2 per
cent (mine samples and assays).

A raise was put up from the 400-foot level in this shoot and it widened
in a short distance to 3 feet, with a larger content of galena.

It will be noted that the relative proportions of gold and silver are
higher than in upper levels.

No. 7 vein is situated about 400 feet from the main vein and is exposed
at the surface, where a remarkable showing of ore 80 feet in length and 18
inches wide was discovered. Analyses! of the ore from this occurrence are
’ as follows:

1Analyses furnished by mine.